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On this day in history, June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
Fox News via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoSally Ride made history as the first American woman in space on this day in history, June 18, 1983....
SpaceX rocket launch this evening from Cape Canaveral: SES/Astra communication satellite
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoA SES/Astra communication satellite will be carried to orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off from Space Launch Complex...Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ...
One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life
The Atlantic· 4 days agoEarlier this year, two satellites from two adversarial countries nearly collided while orbiting Earth at thousands of miles an hour. The first, an...
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 6 hours agoUsually, they have enough fuel on board for the length of the mission, or are constructed to last in orbit for as long as they need to be up there. Once the mission is over ...
Double Moon Mystery: NASA’s Lucy Unravels Dinky’s Secret
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as "Dinky," is orbited by...
Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at 88
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoEd Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50...
Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected...
CNN.com· 22 hours agoFor about 50 years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: There...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 20 hours agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Space: Scary Successful SpaceX
Strategy Page· 3 days agoMay 26, 2023: In mid-May 2023 a SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) rocket returned to earth eight minutes after launch and landed its booster rockets for reuse. This was the ...
A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
The Atlantic· 6 days agoThis was a NASA mission. Bayou appointed himself our Neil Armstrong. In the ensuing days, we were scheduled to set up four identical sites in a long...
